In the past electron was really bloated and was using several mb of memory. So, I also don't understand why the hate with electron. If I needed/wanted a game from the EGS I'd likely us it directly via Wine or use legendary. Then again I'm not the target market for this. This isn't simply 'Why use this when X exists?' There's already too many apps that I have to use that requires it (Slack for work, for example).

I have a strong disdain for the bloated electron framework. I appreciate projects like this and people like you for creating something that didn't exist to fill a need/want in the Linux ecosystem. This was not a personal or professional attack.

Removed some other dependencies that might give some better performance overall as well.

In some cases almost 15% less RAM (from around 140MB to 110MB sometimes)

Updated Electron to version 12, making it use fewer resources.

Fixed missing Unreal Marketplace Assets introduced on 1.6.1.

Fixed another old bug where Heroic wasn't finding Steam Proton on Ubuntu and derivatives.

Fixed an old bug where big installations were being interrupted.

Some UI changes will be needed, as the resume feature isn't obvious as you need to hit Cancel to get the option to pick up the download again later but it works at least. The 1.7.0 'Moria' release of Heroic now has a better download system, so it will continue downloads instead of going back to 0% (hooray!), there's a new option to enable NVIDIA Prime Render Offload for you Optimus users and a Wiki button is included now too. Quite a lot of titles work well, although as usual for unsupported titles some don't work at all so your mileage will vary.

Heroic is actually pretty great, and does most of what you would expect from a game launcher.

Reminder: since the Epic Store doesn't support Linux, the Heroic Games Launcher will download Windows games which will then run through a compatibility layer like Wine. As Epic Games continue ignoring Linux with their store, the Heroic Games Launcher picks up that slack and it has a new release now available for you.

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